A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time … for 10 in the so-called greater Atlantic economy: Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …

Some world historians attach globalization big bang' significance to 1492 (Christopher Colombus stumbles on the … important events in recorded history. Other world historians insist that globalization stretches back even earlier. There is a … third view which argues that the world economy was fragmented and completely de-globalized before the 19th century. None of …

of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …

There are two contrasting views of pre-19th century trade and globalization. First, there are the world history … were the two most important events in recorded history. Second, there is the view that the world economy was fragmented and … global economy that world historians assign to them, while there is plenty of evidence of a very big bang in the 19th century …

This paper documents the size and timing of the world inter-continental trade boom following the great voyages in the … was its cause? The conventional wisdom in the world history literature offers globalization as the answer: it alleges that …

the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …